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dropped anywhere, if the rhino is travelling much; but 
where a rhino, as is often the case, is spending its whole 
time in one rather limited locality, it returns again and 
again to the same place to dung. It kicks and scatters the 
dung about with its hind feet—not its horn. In one place 
we found a cow rhino which had evidently been living for 
many weeks in the river-bottom of the Athi. There was 
plenty of food in the brush jungle which filled the spaces 
between the trees, and which afforded thick cover; there 
was abundant water in pools near by; and evidently the 
rhino had kept close to the immediate neighborhood. The 
dunging place was kicked and ploughed up, and it looked 
as if the beast had rolled and wallowed much, in addition to 
kicking around the dung. This rhino spent its time in the 
immediate vicinity of its drinking-place, and during most of 
the day lay up in the dense shade of the green river-bottom 
jungle, apparently feeding at night and in the early morning 
and late evening. In other localities the animals differed in 
their habits. On the Northern Guaso Nyiro we found the 
rhinos drinking once every twenty-four hours, at night, and 
then travelling back at a good gait in a fairly direct course 
for eight or ten miles into the wastes of leafless thorn scrub, 
upon which they fed and in which they passed their noon¬ 
day hours of rest. In the Sotik the rhinos spent their whole 
time in the bare, open plains, drinking at one or another of 
the widely scattered, rapidly drying little pools. They usu¬ 
ally drank at dusk; that is, about nightfall, and again about 
sunrise. Sometimes during the noon hours they lay out in 
the open, without a particle of cover; sometimes they lay 
under an acacia, or wild olive, or candelabra euphorbia. 
They sometimes stood while resting, but usually lay down, 
